The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 27th April 2023

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 27th April 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Monarch, politician and British parliament in sport	CROWNGREENBOWLS
AAcross 9:	Intense feeling I don't know in suppressing love
AAcross 10:	See 28
AAcross 11:	Last of all, Ivan the Terrible born
AAcross 12:	Brilliant (as a scandalous headline?)
AAcross 13:	Something sugary on dish, honey	SWEETIEPIE
AAcross 15:	Band blew their own trumpets?
AAcross 18:	Sensible characters, we hear?
AAcross 20:	Crack, where stuff in fluid bleeds
AAcross 23:	Tools locked in alongside spring, stopping mechanism
AAcross 25:	Chicken dripping
AAcross 26:	Sexual practice with an after-dark visitor
AAcross 27:	Board showing pasty as lacking in taste
AAcross 28:	Opera something painful and irritating, amateur collection for the average Joe?	MANONTHECLAPHAM
DDown 1:	Tool grasped under peg in wheel
DDown 2:	Person bagging degree, Cambridge's ultimate blue
DDown 3:	Punches ain't less brutal
DDown 4:	Approach argument
DDown 5:	Braggart again has come dancing
DDown 6:	Criminal within touch?
DDown 7:	Basket in sport for discussion online
DDown 8:	Piece of floss is a long fibre
DDown 14:	Quite so in a German church
DDown 16:	Elastic we gather, medium floury foodstuff
DDown 17:	Mother throttles fighter in our class
DDown 19:	River shut up in year before opening of Nile
DDown 21:	Date encapsulating cold charm
DDown 22:	15, ultimate of those names at sea
DDown 23:	Literary heart beats finally in resonating sound
DDown 24:	Area of interest to film